ISSN:
0894-3230
Keywords:
Organic Chemistry
;
Physical Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
The base-promoted nitrile-forming elimination reactions of YCH=CHCβH=NOCH=CHZ (Y=OCH3, H or Cl and Z=H or NO2) were studied by the AM1 MO theoretical method with Cl- as a base. The reaction is found to proceed by an E1cB-like E2 mechanism in which Cβ - H bond cleavage is more advanced than N - O bond breaking. The syn-elimination has a more E1cB-like transition state (TS) than the anti elimination, which is attributed to the structurally favourable nN - ó * (Cβ - H) charge-transfer interaction. An electron-withdrawing Y substituent lowers the activation barrier by stabilizing negative charge developed on Cβ in the TS. An electron-withdrawing substituent in the leaving group (Z = NO2) tends to enhance the anti relative to the syn elimination process by depressing the δ*(N - O) level, which in turn makes the nć - δ*(N - O) interaction more effective. The YCH=CH - and - CβH=N fragments are perpendicular in the TS, which is stabilized by delocalization of negative charge developed on the Cβ atom.
Additional Material:
3 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/poc.610050507
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